Mispronounced names !Follow

I thought this would be a fun and kind of handy post. I know a lot of people put a lot of thought into making a name for their avatar and as we all no its a text chat game. So it leaves us to try and figure out phoenetically the way peoples names sound. I realized people were mispronouncing the way I intend my name to sound the other day when I was on the phone with an RL friend who plays on shiva with us and he mentioned my characters name... he pronounced it like NOR RAIN I told him that that wasnt how it was said lol that it was more like
Nor un so I figured I would make a post about it and that way we can all know how the other peoples names are meant to be said ^^.

strangly enough a lot of poeple online when i play halo 2 mispronounce Kloe. its KLO E also lots of poeple say Klow instead of Kloe to me a lot lol. I guess the W key is easier to press than the E? lol.

My name is pronounced as 'Rogue-eeee', on a TS server once, everyone kept saying it like 'Rog-eee' sounding like groggy without the first G. XD

Edited, Sun Dec 5 17:17:41 2004 by Moblinexplorer

I'll be really suprised if anyone who I've played with could pronounce my name correctly. Also, no one has ever guessed the true origin of my name. Here's a quote from http://www.pantheon.org explaining it, "Calais:The son of Boreas and brother of Zetes. As participants in the voyage of the Argonauts they played an important part, among which freeing King Phineus from the Harpies."

That site doesn't have a pronunciation guide, but the American Heritage Dictionary does have a pronunciation guide for the French city named after the Argonaut:http://www.bartleby.com/61/36/C0023600.html

That may seem like way too much information, but it felt good to finally put it out there. Thank you to the OP for starting this thread.

Edited, Sun Dec 5 22:03:21 2004 by Tethys

hmmm well I don't know how people pronounce mine, Agawulf, but its broken down into two parts incidently most people call me one or the other:
Aga: derived from AGAmemnon (ancient Greek king in trojan war, as well as Sheridan's old ship on B5 (Yeah I'm a big geek)) I always pronounced it like the ahhh you make when you run away in fear followed by a sharp -ga sound
wulf: derived from beoWULF and is pronounced wolf

Mine is uchi-pu. Short "U". Not U chip U.

my in game name is "Xellith". its pronounced "bob".

lol some names i've botched up:

Alwayshope: i pronounced it "Always Shoppe" (like the fancy spelling of the word "shop" that some stores have)...got confused when someone called him "Hope" once. (supposed to be Always Hope)

Knightzneverdie: for some reason (illiteracy or dyslexia who knows haha) i always saw this as Knights-zen-ver-dee-ay (pronouncing both the "i" and "e" from "die" like in spanish)

Syrius: i pronounced this one like the word "Serious" although it's supposed to be more like "sigh-ree-us" with an "I" sound, instead of an "E" sound.

mine's pronouced like this : Arr-jent, Argent

Mine should be pretty hard to mess up also.

Kalten

Kal = as in "Cal" in california.

ten = as in the number 10.

sorry lok i mispelled your name in a thread and am too lazy to edit
too many ppl pronouce or even type my name as sneakadid or snakedid(no idea y) im snek-a-did, tho u can say or pronouce it in your head how ever u want plz stop calling me sneak or snake.... its annoying

My is actually an acronym I got from the last LAN Clan i was in.

My name is Vorrt, pronounced VOR-T.

The acronym is Voice Of Reason and Random Thoughts or V.O.R.R.T. for short.

my mule's name is Rhee, pronounced Ree.

talisia i Pmed you back, i dont know if you noticed. Sorry it took me like 5 days, i dont check my messages much, but from now on i will.